Montgomery reflects on the witnessing of those disciples and the apostles’ opponents:

They had the means, motive and opportunity to expose the apostolic witness as inaccurate and deceptive if it had been such. The fact that they did not can only be effectively explained on the ground that they could not.

Clearly the risks and punishment for maintaining their convictions about Jesus outweighed what would have been the temporal rewards of changing their story. They stepped in the footsteps of the ancient witnesses for Jehovah who also more than once brought their own life by sticking to what they thought to be the truth and did consider to be the Word of God. When we look at the ancient times we see that several of the godly persons or prophets of the Old Testament were killed by those they served. Thus no earthly net gain can be said to have been the authors’ motive for their testimonies. those people may be emotionally bounded to an idea and could have had such special desire to have their ideas in accordance to a Higher Being, that they must have believed in that Supreme Being. They lived in a world where many had several gods but they themselves were convinced that we should only believe in and worshipone God, the ElohimHashemJehovah who is the Maker of everything and Who has always existed, having no beginning and no end, i.e. being an eternalBeing. For them it was clear it was worthwhile to live but also to die for Him. They had a physiologicalneed to feel connected with Him. You could say they had asimilarimpulse as the talmidim of Jeshua thatacted as an incitement to action.

Many of the adversaries of God say all those writings are full of fantasies and are not conform with each other, containing many contradictory things.

Though when looking what those writers had to endure for their witnessing you might wonder if their making up stories would be worth it, and how it can be possible that whilst they lived so many miles and ages away from each other, they still could create such a coherent whole.

There are no proven external defects in the witnesses all those biblical writers made. Contradictory to the adversaries their sayings no internal defects in their testimony can be found either.

Those people saying (or writing) the New Testament writings are inconsistent or self-contradictory forget that the four Gospels are accounts of Jesus’ life by four different men from totally different background and directing their writings also to different groups with a different knowledge about matters discussed. The authors wanted to give a narrative or record of events to the specific public they were writing at. For none of them was it to give an actual day to day report. They had not written a diary and only started writing things down after Jesus was already not there any more. They also wrote their experiences down, or wrote the facts like they had felt it, or from the way they looked at it at that time. They had no intention at all to give a very comprehensive detained event overview. They also wanted covering many, yet not all, of the same events and living far apart from each other plus not seeing any need to recount the happenings word for word identical. If they were identical, they certainly would be suspect.

Instead, we can see how the accounts are complementary; each providing different perspectives without contradiction. In fact, nowhere in the Bible has any contradiction been proven to exist.

This assertion is not unchallenged, of course, and may be pursued under the category Objections. (For other specific challenges, try When Critics Ask by Geisler/Howe, or Bible Difficulties by Gleason Archer. These are not the only books on the subject, but ones I’ve personally seen and respect. {How can we tell whether or not the Bible is telling the truth?}

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